Claire Hanna MLA has hit out at the banner on the Lisburn Road in Belfast

Ms Hanna, who recently resigned from the SDLP, tweeted: “This is provocative, divisive and intimidating.

“It is rejected even by the regiment it claims to support and comes on the back of paramilitary emblems erected elsewhere in shared South Belfast. I hope all local elected reps will join me in, at a minimum, calling for it to be removed.”

The actions of Parachute Regiment soldiers in NI are currently under scrutiny in a criminal prosecution and a legacy inquest.